運搬

うんぱん · unpan · JLPT N1 · noun

conveyance

🚚 運 (convey) + 搬 (carry) = two carry characters combined = transport

運 also means luck or fate, but in this word it means shipping. 搬 means to carry or move by hand. Together they describe moving goods from one place to another.

搬 — hand 扌 + 般 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The hand radical 扌 gives the meaning of physical action — moving or carrying things — while 般 (bān) supplies the sound. 般 originally depicted turning a boat with a pole, so 搬 fits the sense of shifting objects from one place to another by hand.

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